Category: Philadelphia

  • “When you add a new member, it becomes a new band”

     LN jg1979-11-07.interview.26mins.fm.xxxxxx.flac1644 This is a nice little interview with Garcia after the 11/6/79 Philly Dead show. He talks about “Mission In The Rain” and “Reuben And Cérise”, picks some gospel Dylan to spin, tells the story of the Rambler Room gig in ’78, and drops the titular line, which I like a lot. JERRY GARCIA…

  • Visions of Johanna

    Powerful viewing of a gut-wrenchingly beautiful performance, a dying man grasping at life, stumbling a time or two, laying bare the depth and beauty of the human condition. Thank you, videographer, thank you Bob Dylan, thank you Jerry.

  • Finally Busting out Cats at the End of the Cats Tour: JGB at the Philly Spectrum, March 16, 1978

     LN jg1978-03-16.jgb.all.aud-petrunis.124066.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band Spectrum Theater 3601 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19148 March 16, 1978 (Thursday) Petrunis aud shnid-124066 –complete show (10 tracks, 87:45)– t01. The Harder They Come [10:36] % [-0:02] t02. [+0:02] /Mission In The Rain [10:40] % t03. /That’s What Love Will Make You Do [10:25] % t04. /Gomorrah [#7:15]…

  • Cat in the Limelight: RN Grosswald and Blavat 1978

    Grosswald, Mike and Glen Blavat. 1978. Jerry Garcia’s Band Under the Stars. Happytimes (Philadelphia), March 31, 1978, p. 15. Grosswald-Bavat 1978: This is a really nicely done piece from what I assume was a Philly underground paper, Happytimes, around the time of the JGB’s visit to that town in mid-March (3/16/78 at the Spectrum Theatre).…